It’s often fun to read the “data lab” blogs of companies that collect or produce devices that collect a lot of data. Jawbone took data on “hundreds of thousands” of users of their app tracking their sleep and mood and attempted to answer: “What makes people happy?”

Finally, do you ever find yourself having coffee with a data scientist feeling lost as they harp on about “k-means”, “C4.5” and their “support vector machines”. Well, Ray Li has you covered, check out his “Top 10 Data Mining Algorithms in Plain English”